Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun whacking

1 sense of whacking

Sense 1
beating, thrashing, licking, drubbing, lacing, trouncing, whacking -- (the act of inflicting corporal punishment with repeated blows)
       => corporal punishment -- (the infliction of physical injury on someone convicted of committing a crime)

Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb whack

1 sense of whack

Sense 1
whack, wham, whop, wallop -- (hit hard; "The teacher whacked the boy")
       => hit -- (deal a blow to, either with the hand or with an instrument; "He hit her hard in the face")

Antonyms of adj whacking

1 sense of whacking

Sense 1
whacking -- ((British informal) enormous; "a whacking phone bill"; "a whacking lie")

INDIRECT (VIA large, big) -> small, little -- (limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent; "a little dining room"; "a little house"; "a small car"; "a little (or small) group")
INDIRECT (VIA large, big) -> small, little -- (limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent; "a little dining room"; "a little house"; "a small car"; "a little (or small) group")

Similarity of adj whacking

1 sense of whacking

Sense 1
whacking -- ((British informal) enormous; "a whacking phone bill"; "a whacking lie")
       => large (vs. small), big (vs. little) -- (above average in size or number or quantity or magnitude or extent; "a large city"; "set out for the big city"; "a large sum"; "a big (or large) barn"; "a large family"; "big businesses"; "a big expenditure"; "a large number of newspapers"; "a big group of scientists"; "large areas of the world")

Synonyms of adv whacking

1 sense of whacking

Sense 1
whacking -- (extremely; "a whacking good story")

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